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Beaver tail food trucks are a thing.
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@suetanvil@freeradical.zone
mastodon 4.7.3Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet.
Joined 2017.
White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode).
Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers.
Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid).
Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion.
This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here.
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US Pol: Democrats must pick a lane
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@soatok
Do it. Make a real product, offer it for sale, try to sell it to boards. It probably won't sell but it'll make the C-Suite lose a lot of sleep. Why should workers be the only ones to worry about AI?
(No, seriously, are there not a few tech lottery winners out there who'd be up for funding this kind of prank?)
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@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red @deepmud@mas.to @kims@mas.to
It's not like Rowling would benefit from the sale.
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@overholt@glammr.us
I would have thought that by the year 6151, time travelers would have known better than to use GANs and LLMs to generate their camouflage artifacts.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social
THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!
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What's the current preferred way to to set up a clean, resettable build environment for older versions of macOS?
(I have an ancient laptop that runs High Sierra and I'd like to try to get stuff compiled on it with/adjacent to MacPorts, preferably on a faster machine. On Linux, I'd just use a Docker container with the minimal set of installed packages and clone/delete as needed. But for macOS?)
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @makram@mastodon.gamedev.place
Honestly, I can think of much worse uses for their investors' cash.
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@jalefkowit
So my theory about HP (and also The Da Vinci Code) is that it's not so much the books its fans have discovered but the joy of reading, but they've learned the wrong lesson and attribute it to that specific mediocre book instead of written fiction as a whole.
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@vagina_museum
*Worst* *Alien* *Sequel* *Ever!*
(And yes, I know about Prometheus.)
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@adrianhon@mastodon.social
Also: the collective Church needs to reject conservativism. There is no ideological compatibility between them and large parts of white American church culture are basically just a sock puppet for the Republican party.
Huh. SuperCollider's AI policy is actually pretty reasonable.
( https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/blob/develop/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#usage-of-ai-tools ).
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@secretasianman@types.pl @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
This is true.
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@aphyr@woof.group
Maybe use something like iocaine to create a tar pit linked from something normal users wouldn't touch and blocked by robots.txt?
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@rootsworks@idlethumbs.social
I have some initial notes somewhere for a novel in which a forensic accountant accidentally discovers a group of vampires by their account behaviors and becomes a target.
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@lynnesbian
Still beats using Windows, tho.
FWIW, I've found JRuby to be *really* nice to use--basically, identical to CRuby most of the time, minus certain understandable incompatibilities and the bonus of being able to use virtually any Java library pretty much seamlessly. The main downside is that it takes a few seconds to start up and just load the script.
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@tek@freeradical.zone
Robert Charles Wilson wrote a short story based on this premise. It's excellent and horrifying.
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@woe2you @jalefkowit
FWIW, I find it much nicer and more productive when friends tell me that they like $BAD_MEDIA to say, "Oh, then you might like $BETTER_MEDIA" and maybe lend them a copy rather than trashing the thing they like. That way, you're adding to their life instead of trying to remove something they enjoy.
I got my Grisham-enjoying parents into Scott Turow this way.
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@sounddrill @xyhhx @jalefkowit
The artist is not the art is not the fandom. You can like horrible peoples' work without condoning the author. (Or, as someone on here put, Rowling is a horrible person who did one good thing.)
In any case, I don't think it's a moral failing to like HP, as long as you're not *paying* for it.
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@Drwave@mastodon.social
4Gb is a lot until it isn't.
Both of the static analysis products I've worked on were full of hacks to keep from running out of address space. One was 32-bit when I started there and I worked on the conversion, where the hacks turned "recompile with different flags" into a half-year project.
Of course, keeping object size down does wonders for performance even without swap.
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@aparrish@friend.camp
I have mixed feelings about stuff like this.
As a user, it offers lots of the benefits of open-source (zero-cost, auditable, fixable, forkable) and that's always better than binary-only payware. But I'm never going to put any effort into contributing to this project. It's a commercial product and I won't work on it unless they pay me.
IMO, FOSS-as-business-strategy is better non-FOSS, but it's not *real* FOSS and there's no real community.
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@mitten@social.lol
"QAWDSX is like an opiniated and beautiful cross between GjiihTujv and %UjgFga7."
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@scott@sfba.social
Pshaw! Next thing, you'll be saying they shouldn't have low-level access Bluetooth or USB!
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@deshipu@fosstodon.org
Also, because their number system lacked zero, they were unable to detect the successful termination of their C programs.
(Disclosure: I stole this joke from the fortune file.)
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@triz@normal.style
Congrats!
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@wwahammy@social.treehouse.systems
Well, time to see how painless Pop_Os! is to switch to.
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@noracodes
This is not an answer to your question but might be useful so I'll mention it:
I sometimes find myself in a similar situation, but what I gravitate to is long-form blog posts converted to epubs with the ePub Creator Firefox extension.
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@mhoye @ryanjyoder
E.g., if your FOSS project's documentation system uses a JavaScript framework, you are going to force some fraction of your users to spend money they don't have on a more expensive computer they otherwise wouldn't need.
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@danirabbit
The term "slavery LARPing" is not mine but I love it.
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@dumpsterqueer
Alas, all I have is weird programming languages. I hope that fits someone's kink.
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@debcha@saturation.social
I can sometimes forgive this kind of thing as a literary device to give the article a more urgent tone, especially if the authors' intended audience are unlikely to have read about this thing before.
I am less forgiving of people doing this for the clicks.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social
It's probably an agent trained on Anthropic corporate culture.
(Joking, but... Hmmmm...)
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
One advantage of being the sort of person who will write software for fun as well as professionally is that it's a survival strategy. I'm now working on a particularly difficult project in part because it will help keep those skills from atrophying.
(The project, BTW: https://codeberg.org/suetanvil/loom )
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I vaguely recall reading about a Linux distro (or hack thereon) that used make to launch services and dependencies. The reasoning (IIRC) was to start up faster by only launching the services you need and doing so in parallel.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca
Googling (with ddg) reveals a couple of portable e-ink monitors: Dasung Paperlike and maybe some Lenovo Thinkbooks. There's also Modos, but that doesn't seem to be out yet.
[d.rift beat me to it]
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@agturcz @ahltorp
I bring this up because it's better to have many imperfect allies than few perfect ones and chasing away folks who are mostly on your side except for this one niggling thing is going to do more harm than good.
Someone who sincerely supports trans rights and realizes Rowling a shitty person but still enjoys this creation of hers and the surrounding fan culture is still someone you want on your side.
(ctd)
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@wonderfox_dev @vagina_museum
I wrote it in a weak, low-effort impression of Comic Book Guy's voice, so your brain has improved it.
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@devxvda
(Note: not a doctor. Obviously.)
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@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca
Apparently, Rowling stopped attributing Diana Wynn Jones' enormous influence on HP when she started to get really famous.
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@mhoye
I'm in no way disagreeing with you, but I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to frame this as a moral or ethical stance.
The term "politics" invokes partisan hackery in a lot of people's minds, but framing it as "treat others the way you want to be treated" is a lot harder to argue with without showing your ass.
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@jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org
This could be a 30 Rock subplot. Wow!
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@noracodes
My gotos are:
https://acoup.blog/ - historian writing about history often in terms of pop culture. His biggest "hit" is a series on Sparta, which pretty much destroys the myth embodied in 300.
https://www.filfre.net/ - The Digital Antiquarian; history of computer games. Already available as epubs, which is handy.
I'm also currently reading Kitty Unpretty's DC fanfic on Ao3. I'm not hugely into fanfic but she really needs to be put in charge of the DCU.